Nigel Davenport
Acting
Biography
Arthur Nigel Davenport (23 May 1928 – 25 October 2013) was an English stage, television and film actor, best known as the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Birkenhead in the Academy Award-winning films A Man for All Seasons and Chariots of Fire, respectively.
Born: May 23, 1928
Place of Birth: Shelford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Known For
The News-Benders
An idealistic young television producer is approached by the representative of a clandestine agency offering an unusual job: creating the news - before it happens. And a refusal, it seems, is not an option.
Othello
The earliest British televised production in existence of the play Othello, with black American actor, Gordon Heath, in the title role. This was the first televised version of the play to feature a black actor in the title role. Gordon Heath, an American, came to Britain in 1947 and was cast by Kenneth Tynan to play Othello in his 1950 Arts Council production. The play takes place in Venice and Cyprus and the original production was part-live, with recorded Venice sequences
The London Connection
A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of American tourists caught right in the middle.
The Avengers
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
Keeping Up Appearances
Hyacinth Bucket (whose name, she insists, is pronounced "Bouquet") is a suburban housewife in the West Midlands. She would be the first to tell you that she is a gracious hostess, a respected citizen, and a well-connected member of high society. If you don't believe that, just ask her best friend Elizabeth, held captive in Hyacinth's kitchen; or the postmen and neighbours who bristle at the sound of her voice; or Richard, her weary and compliant husband. In fact, Hyacinth's reputation could be as perfect as her new lounge set, if not for her senile father's love of running wild in the nip. Oh, and she would prefer it if her brother-in-law was a sharper dresser. And that her husband was more ambitious. And that her sisters were more presentable. And do take your shoes off before you come in the house, dear. Mind that you don't brush against the wallpaper.
Midsomer Murders
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Peeping Tom
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
Longitude
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
The Saint
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Daniel Peggotty
as Major cowpat
as Sir Charles Pelham
as Sir Charles Pelham
as Don César de Echagüe, padre
as César de Echagüe
as Lord Rothermere
as Lord Rothermere
as William Smithers
as Lord Blackstock
as Sir Arthur Andrews
as The Commodore
as Mr. Douglas Hamilton
as Mr. Hamilton
as Lord Smithwick
as Supt. Hannam
as Giustiniani
as Sir Edward Frere
as Colonel Goosen
as Silas Scrooge
as Arthur Birling
as Major Jack Downing
as Arthur Birling
as Charles Bridgnorth
as Theseus
as Pigel
as Lord Birkenhead
as Senator Mucianus
as Peter Hartman
as Gray Harrison Hunt
as Colonel George Grenfell
as Arthur Minton
as Ray
as King George III
as Col. Hamilton-Brown
as Montgomery
as Driscoll
as Lt. Ben Deel
as Álvaro Mesía
as Robert Carne
as Dr. Ernest D. Hubbs
as Van Helsing
as Sir Harry Wotton
as The Bounty Hunter
as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
as CIA Official
as George Adamson
as Lord Bothwell
as Bob Matthews
as Gruber
as Dr. Maitland
as John Custance
as Sgt Driscoll
as De Soto
as Richardson
as Capt. Cyril Leech
as David Windom
as Gen. Phillips
as Robert Larkin
as Lesgate
as The Duke of Norfolk
as Parkington
as Mottram
as Sturdevan
as King Magnus
as Mr. Thornton
as Inspector Potter
as Donkin
as Lew Harding
as Larry Mason
as Mr. Strang
as Leonard Groves
as Police Inspector
as Dino Steffano
as Aldo Petri
as Charles Voyson
as Grabowsky
as Personnel Manager
as Don Miguel de Cervantes
as Lord Barnes
as Theatre Manager (uncredited)
as Det. Sgt. Miller (uncredited)
as 1st Commercial Traveller
as Army Officer (uncredited)
as Lodovico
as Loud Lawrence
as Claude the Seneschal
as Sir James
as Barty
as Captain
as Sentry
as Sir Peter Marston
as Jackson